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Silver's Ramon Rodriguez will battle for the district crown against Jose Delgado of Cobre. The wrestlers are 1-1 against each other this year.

SILVER CITY >> The Silver High wrestling team will host the district tournament Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Cobre and Ruidoso will be in attendance with the top two wrestlers in each weight class advancing to the state competition in Rio Rancho next weekend.

"At this point we are just trying to fine tune some things," Silver head coach Luis Alvarado said. "We are keeping on a positive note, and instilling that we need to qualify a full squad to the state tournament."

The Colts have fallen to rival Cobre High twice this year in dual action. Silver did win the first meeting in head to head battles, and that weighs heavily on Alvarado's mind.

"We are going to have to be ready to wrestle," Alvarado said. "We need to be the aggressive ones in every match like we did the first time we faced them. We need to put the pressure on them from the beginning."

Alvarado said they will face Ruidoso in a lot of the first round matches, but added that he expects the district championship to come down between Silver and Cobre again.

"We've seen cobre twice and in order to come close, we are going to have to be able to win certain situations against them," Alvarado said. "We need to attack and put ourselves in a position to win those matches. Instead of sitting back and waiting, we need to put pressure on them."